Very scary thought, regardless if your "paranoid", and I use that term lightly, you should automatically have some kind of supplies in case of any
disaster. It is recommended to have a couple weeks supply, it is not that hard to save up for that! Whether the disaster to occur is a pandemic,
weather related, or even terrorist related! It is always better to be safe than sorry.

Two weeks supplies might not be enough. As soon as word gets round of the threat people will panic buy and so once you run out agter two weeks and go
to Tesco there may be problems. Also, once it begins it is preferable to stay at home . I for one would not really want to go venturing out to
Tesco's after 2 weeks when people are catching the virus. I'm getting 6 months worth in - I look at it as buying in advance and nothing bad happens
well it will get used anyway so there is no financial waste.
And if it gets really bad there will be prolonged food shortages so best to be WELL prepared not half prepared, even if this means using the overdraft
or whatever.

Backstory: This was story was printed on 4/22 (2 days before Canada started blwoing the whistle), by a local Detrick paper.

Anyway, back to the rabbit hole; what if this is an bio-engineered pandemic release that allows for 'contained release' and it is multi-pronged with
the agenda of getting Mexico under control?

I know I sound crazy, but let me see if I can spin this yarn....

Let's say there is a US bio-engineered strain that is highly pathogenic but has specific 'properties' that contain it by... let's say....

...Oh, let's say the strain is highly communicable but only for a set period of time, and it is then designed to mutate into something more benign.
Risky no doubt as viral strains are notorious for their survival skills and craft, but let's just say it anyway... for the sake of conjecture...

It is released in Mexico in conjunction with Obama's visit -- who was being hosted and escorted around a museum director who died
THE NEXT DAY with flu symptoms, so whatever that guy had was not what we are seeing
here in the US (link is to a thread I put up).

Anyway, sub-plot subtle assasination attempt. Main storyline keep Mexico from falling into the hands of the drug lords, stop possible massive
migration over the border (and if it looks like we have it here, they aren't going to be racing over) and perhaps soften up the ground for the
inevitable NAU, as you know we want all that beachfront property down there nicely developed.

This yarn inspired by the question of why our strain seems more benign.

Call me crazy but Itook my wife and kids to Chillis, HOLY DUNG, the streets are empty so was chillis, we are home now but I guess everyone is
scared.
My wife went to the supermarket early today and she told me it was empty, so tomorrow Ill go to Sams and the SM again to get even more supplies since
the minister of health will speak on national TV explaining what the heck they will do next week..

GENEVA – The World Health Organization warned countries around the world Saturday to be on alert for any unusual flu outbreaks after a unique
new swine flu virus was implicated in possibly dozens of human deaths in North America.

WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said the outbreak in Mexico and the United States constituted a "public health emergency of international
concern."

The decision means countries around the world will be asked to step up reporting and surveillance of the disease, which she said had "pandemic
potential" because it is an animal virus strain infecting people. But the agency cannot at this stage say "whether or not it will indeed cause a
pandemic," she added.

When taken into the context, Margret Chan pretty much knows that the pandemic is on its way, and she knows very well the formula that says some 50
million people world-wide with not up to date immune system will die before the pandemic is over.

Don't take this as an attempt to start a new conspiracy theory. I have some background in the medical world.

Any country, particularly the US, would benefit tremendously if there was an epidemic to which the elderly were most vulnerable. All people die
eventually, and something like half their medical costs of a lifetime go to the last few months of their life.

That said, if something like a million people died enmasse instead of living their full expectancy into their 80s and 90s, the savings for the
government, employers, the health system, and all around, who be enormous.

A company like GM is obligated to pay lifetime health costs for something like a million people right now, mostly pensioners and their wives. They
would be saddened but not displeased if many of these people had their lives shortened by a decade or so.

I think most will get the gist of my reasoning.

Now if only those brilliant bioengineers can come up with something credible that is fatal primarily with people in their 70s and upward. Maybe
they're working on it. Maybe their testing it right now.

Mike

Hello Mike,

There is one very small point that you are overlooking here. The elderly also use more pharmaceuticals than anyone else (most take 6-10 pills daily)
and the pharmaceutical companies probably could care less where the money came from (insurance, medicare or where ever). So they in turn lobby the
government (I believe they are the largest group represented by lobbyist) and of course our representatives would never sell out their own country or
taxpayer money just to line their own pockets would they? (bank bailouts?)

[edit on 4/23/2009 by DarrylGalasso]

I think it would be rather difficult to target this group, if that was the plan, because they don't mover around much so the 'person-to-person'
transmission wouldn't be as effective as say with kids.

Two weeks supplies might not be enough. As soon as word gets round of the threat people will panic buy and so once you run out agter two weeks and go
to Tesco there may be problems. Also, once it begins it is preferable to stay at home . I for one would not really want to go venturing out to
Tesco's after 2 weeks when people are catching the virus. I'm getting 6 months worth in - I look at it as buying in advance and nothing bad happens
well it will get used anyway so there is no financial waste.
And if it gets really bad there will be prolonged food shortages so best to be WELL prepared not half prepared, even if this means using the overdraft
or whatever.

I was just wondering, Cosmic Pixie about something I read ages ago - I think it was about 3 or 4 years ago now - when the English authorities said
that if there were a pandemic (it was in regard to the bird flu threat, I think) they said all the major cities in England would be quarentined.
Nobody in and Nobody out.

It sounded nightmarish, but it would stop transport of food, services - everything.

The whole educational system in Mexico city meropolitan area nd A state (SLP) will close till May 6, people are advised to stay indors and go to work
inly if they dont have any kind of symptoms and avoid public places and crowds.

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